9/11 Rescue Dog Enjoying Retirement In Winthrop
WOBURN (CBS) - Only a handful search and rescue dogs deployed to Ground Zero are still alive, ten years after 9/11.
One of them is Moxie, a 13-year-old chocolate lab in retirement in Winthrop.
Her owner Mark Aliberti says she's losing her hearing and her vision isn't great, but it was her strong sense of smell that got her working on 9/11.
Listen to the report by WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Bernice Corpuz
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"These dogs are air scent dogs, which means they go out and sniff the air and they work their way in to the scent," Aliberti told WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Bernice Corpuz. "I'd tell her to go find and she'd search and search and search. If she found somebody or found scent that she's interested in, she's trained to penetrate as much as she can, get as close as she can. When she can't get any closer, she's trained to start barking and continually bark and just stay there until I join her."
Moxie and Mark worked up to 16-hour shifts for 8 days at Ground Zero.
